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perfectpawn909

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In Topic: Howard's '30s-era Stories

12 June 2009 - 04:41 PM

I should probably read Valley, then.  I think the copy I got is illustrated -- I think all of them were except for the "Vulture" book.  I'm kinda enamored with that whole early 20th century "orientalist/adventure" fiction movement, so I'm thrilled REH delved in that area.  I've always wondered why he didn't strike out for Hollywood.  I think he could've made it writing say serial cliffhangers.  I'm not knocking his writing skills, implying that's all he could do, I just mean his pulp fiction background would make him a natural for writing a weekly serial filled with square-jawed heroes and all-evil villains, with lots of fistfights and gunfights and cliffhangers.

In Topic: Howard's '30s-era Stories

12 June 2009 - 04:20 PM

I think I've discovered the book you mention -- you mean the Borak/O'Donnell book coming out from Del Rey?  Sounds great, and I'll certainly get it.  In that thread I discovered the old mass market paperback "Lost Valley of Iskander" has some of these tales.  A few years ago I picked up that book at a used bookstore (along with some others, including something called "Vultures of Wharpedon" or something?), but I never got around to reading any of them.

In Topic: Howard's '30s-era Stories

11 June 2009 - 08:36 PM

I'm looking for the "men's adventure" type of stuff, in the H. Rider Haggard/Talbot Mundy mold.  I'm certain REH wrote stuff like this -- in fact maybe even a series featuring one Alan Quartermain-type character -- but I don't know what it is.  (That, or I'm just imagining it!)

In Topic: Star Trek XI

08 May 2009 - 06:49 PM

Well, that is another factor -- everyone who has seen it raves about it.  Which is why I say I'm in the minority...I am, of course, passing judgement on something I haven't seen.  Actually I'm moreso just passing judgement on the entire concept.  I'd be fine if this was just a "new" Star Trek, with an all-new crew and etc, but as for remaking the original?  With someone ELSE playing Capt Kirk?  

It's like we could make a movie version of "Everybody Loves Raymond," but we'd have Jerry Seinfeld play Raymond.  

Plus I have issues with the makers of the film...Abrams is after all the guy who gave us "The Adventures of the Crying Spy Who Uses Kicks Instead of Guns," aka "Alias."  

But anyway.  I've been wrong before, so it's very possible I could be wrong about this!

In Topic: Star Trek XI

08 May 2009 - 04:17 PM

I seem to be in the minority, but this movie just does not appeal to me.  In fact, it disgusts me -- yet another Hollywood remake, loaded up with tons of cgi, "tough and cool" dialog, "in your face" attitude (ie, "This isn't your father's Star Trek"), and, oh yeah, the friggin Beastie Boys on the soundtrack.  

I want to stress -- I am not a Star Trek fan.  (I AM a William Shatner fan, though; I love that guy.)

I lump this with the remakes of Bewitched or Herbie the Love Bug or whatever, and I just can't see WHY people are so excited about it.  It just looks likes generic, dumbed-down Hollywood action-scifi crap.  But then again, I think its popularity is just another indication of the Idiocracy Effect taking a firmer hold...after all, Beverly Hills Chihuahua was the top film in the US a few months ago...

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